GasGas:
So the repairs to the vehicle more than exceeded the extra payment.
It had a hard life, when I left the company it was on around 1.6 million km’s. Have not seen it on the road in a while so it might have been put down 
It was a very expensive unit to keep on the road but that company buy’s new trucks for fun nowadays compared to when I started and was given a less then £5k Scania unit 
biggriffin:
Always remember fuel is weight, basically 1L=1kg.
.86 kg = I ltr @ 16 degrees Celsius … 
Muntjac Hater:
I,ve been on line since & it seems fine for up to 10% over weight is only £100 but the embuggerance is they make you remove some load before you can continue & chain wheels up to stop you leaving. Then you have to pay £60 for removal of chain. I don’t know what you’d do with stuff taken out - get a mate to come out I suppose as I bet they wouldn’t let you leave it on their site
Unless you were driving a cash lorry with 1p and 2p coins… you could pay the fine and lose the required weight, and they’d have to give you your keys back, lol.
In Manitoba Canada 13.30$ per 50kg overweight over 2% on set scale .5% roadside portable and the nasty one $3.60 per mile overweight if they want. 
company pays only a telling off for driver by dot. …biggest ticket I saw was 5ton over gross on 6 axle tipper outfit should have been 46 tn …not me you understand , no nuns or puppies injured. they only ever get me on axle grouping o/w ! 17 ton on drives or over 23 on tridem the round stone moves forwards when you brake honest orificer……tickets $30 ish plus tax under gross as well. $299 if they can turn tarp handle back one rotation !!!
JIMBO47:
$299 if they can turn tarp handle back one rotation !!!
RDC chatter on steroids that is, lol. Thanks though, for shattering the Canadian dream, pal
mrginge:
Just note some places get funny with over weight lorries. TATA Steel were one that would tell you to bugger off if you dared turn up with 44250kg+.Others are happy enough, maxed out a weighbridge once (Over 50T) so a grab took the bales of cars off me and loaded another empty trailer until I was under 44T, then they printed my ticket and I tipped whilst the other trailer went over the bridge with a further 10T. So my boss was happy as he quoted the job by the ton so I delivered close to 36T in one go
Im not sure if this is why I had both my lift axle air bags blow within a few weeks of each other or the separate occasion a chassis brace snapped and took out the tyres and air bags on the drive axle when the axle went side ways during a turn at some lights.
Often it depends if they have an O-licence themselves. If they do, and DVSA find that they’ve been regularly allowing overweight vehicles to enter or leave the premises (remember weighbridge tickets are often kept for 6 months) then they could be in bother for aiding and abetting, even if it isn’t their own vehicle.
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Always remember fuel is weight, basically 1L=1kg.
Being only slightly pedantic, it’s water which has a specific gravity of 1g/mL, diesel is around 0.85g/mL so 1 litre of diesel weighs around 850 grams.
Harry Monk:
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Always remember fuel is weight, basically 1L=1kg.Being only slightly pedantic, it’s water which has a specific gravity of 1g/mL, diesel is around 0.85g/mL so 1 litre of diesel weighs around 850 grams.
Keep it simple. Figuring 1 kilo per litre is a lot easier than fannying around with a calculator doing a conversion. Plus, it gives you a little ‘wiggle room’ for safety.
When I used to do a carriers round collecting 25l tins of waste solvents they averaged an sg of @.82 depending on what was dissolved in it. But working with a figure of 1.0 gave me enough to include the weight of the container.
Conor:
Winseer:
Nine things you shouldn’t do AFTER picking up a load that exactly puts you on 44t gross(2) Pick up a passenger, especially a corpulent one.
This. My mate did this with his Transit Luton. He was transporting a cooking range for a kitchen up to Scotland and asked if I wanted to go along for a ride. We got pulled into Todhills and he was 100kg over - my fat arse worth. Cue VOSA issuing a movement order only to the truckstop via the back road whilst we waited for the customer to come down from Glasgow with a trailer to offload some of it before returning and being reweighed.
Good news was attitude test passed during the checks which is why it wasn’t a “you’re staying here until you offload some of it” and he didn’t get a fine.
^^^^^^^^^^^
might have been easier just leaving your fat arse at the truckstop till he got cleared by the vosa cabbage,the lifting you again than have the customer do a 200 mile round trip for 100kgs ? 
ezydriver:
JIMBO47:
$299 if they can turn tarp handle back one rotation !!!RDC chatter on steroids that is, lol. Thanks though, for shattering the Canadian dream, pal
Been done twice on the $299 tarp rotaion……one was I never clipped it in to the ratchet teeth properly and the handle loosened off ,the next time was when an auto sheet jumped a cog jammed up about a foot from the end ,and a mobile unit pulled me…(load was below sides)…got a lecture on waiting at quarry till our fitter came an hr and a half to repair and not to drive 15mins to a friendly yrd to get tools and sort it myself…“safer” to sit on roadside to wait on friendly company bringing me out a socket/rachet& and a bar than drive the mile or so after stopping me to their yrd… imo more than a few DOT officers in MB are **** ,the wicked witch at thompson area ,black bart at stonewall and my personal “shadow” wifebeater from miami area (his wife ran away with a scotsman) so he really “likes” me!!
